XenServer

Lately I’ve been standing up more and more Hyper-V hosts – I’d estimate my environment is 80% virtual at this point with a total of 20 servers.

I had one remaining XenServer with about 4 VMs running on it. I wanted an easy way to move these VMs to Hyper-V. I tried using the XenCenter GUI to export to a workable format but that kept failing – unfortunately I don’t have any screenshots since this was done a while ago so the exact errors escape me.

This was tested on XenServer 5.6

My process was:

Decide where to export the converted virtual machines to. I opted for an SMB share on a NAS, but you can easily adjust to save to a USB drive or to local storage, if you’d like.